US economic time series

Description

This dataset was produced from US economic time series data available from http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2. economics is in "wide" format, economics_long is in "long" format.

Usage

economics

economics_long

Format

A data frame with 478 rows and 6 variables

date

Month of data collection

psavert

personal savings rate, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/PSAVERT/

pce

personal consumption expenditures, in billions of dollars, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/PCE

unemploy

number of unemployed in thousands, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNEMPLOY

uempmed

median duration of unemployment, in weeks, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UEMPMED

pop

total population, in thousands, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/POP